Book Review: The Afterlife of a Skeptic How the execution of a philosopher has been reinterpreted for every era The book being reviewed is The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson, about which the reviewer has mixed feelings, but the… Read More ›
books & writing
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Still scary after all these years
Onya Germs! Short summary: Professor Greer was in Melbourne town last weekend to be the keynote speaker at a literary conference on Jane Austen and Comedy. Many Ozbloggers who are fans of Jane Austen and Comedy attended (I would have… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Colleen McCullough
McCullough in 2004 I’ve just spent the last week, in between spring cleaning and the odd gleeful skip over the departure of John Winston Howard from the national scene, reading the latest volume in Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series… Read More ›
Sagacious Shakespeare & Hoydenalicious Margarita Mayhem
Assume a hoyden, if you have it not. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from? Get your own quotes: Meme yoinked from Lauredhel’s LJ. I spent the weekend overlooking Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast with three of… Read More ›
Monty Python allusion de jour
From Designated Sidekick, discussing DC Comics’ tendency to have Batman display an irritating level of knowitallness: He’s Batman, not Dan DiDio, he’s not the God of DCU. Bruce isn’t the messiah, he’s just a very broody boy
Middle-aged hoydens invisible?
I have now set up a news-alert email thingy for the word “hoyden”, which is sadly not used as often by other blogs as it could be. So uncommon is it, indeed, that the author of this delightful rant felt… Read More ›
Sunday Affectations: “Book Decor”
Books by the foot. and Book Decor. Srsly. Choose between colour-coordinated libraries such as “Foreign Language Antique Leather”:
Watson is no Galileo
I’ve used this quote before, but it bears repeating. “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” ““ Robert Park James Watson, famous for… Read More ›
We’re all very quiet
Is everybody busy madly writing Dumbledore slash now? I’ve already seen the first macros (H/T Shannon).
Napoli-esque fanfic stupid
Quoted on fanficrants: “just wow.” Um, oh my god. Review (for a story I didn’t write): one thing: if [she] used tampons, the rape wouldn’t have hurt that much. i guess it would’ve hurt a little but not as much… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 